Last updated on 2017-02-20

The nycflights13 package contains "tidy data" all 336,776 flights that departed from NYC (e.g. EWR, JFK and LGA) in 2013.
To help understand what causes delays, it also includes a number of other useful datasets.
weather: hourly meterological data for each airportplanes: construction information about each planeairports: airport names and locationsairlines: translation between two letter carrier codes and namesIn small teams, take 3 minutes to write down
Recall the tradeoff:
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You need to install each package once.
You need to load a package everytime you want to use it.
library(PACKAGENAME) in the console.Today's Learning Check: Install and then load 3 packages:
dplyr: a package for data manipulationggplot2: a package for data visualizationbabynames: a package of baby name datababynames PackageThe babynames package contains for each year from 1880 to 2013, the number of children born of each sex given each name in the United States. Only names with more than 5 occurrences are considered.
Have students engage in the data/science research pipeline in as faithful a manner as possible while maintaining a level suitable for novices.
We will, as best we can, perform all this:
And not just this, as in many previous intro stats courses:
Foster a conceptual understanding of statistical topics and methods using simulation/resampling and real data whenever possible, rather than mathematical formulae.
In this course, computers and not math will be the "engine". What does this mean?
Blur the traditional lecture/lab dichotomy of introductory statistics courses by incorporating more computational and algorithmic thinking into the syllabus.
go/rstudio/ (on campus or via VPN)Develop statistical literacy by, among other ways, tying in the curriculum to current events, demonstrating the importance statistics plays in society.
Either
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go/rstudio/ with your Midd accountNow we will use R via DataCamp instead of via RStudio, but just for driver's ed. Two panels exist in both: